Category: cinephile
Luchino Visconti: The German Trilogy
Movies have been called the art form of the twentieth century so often that it has become tiresome to refute the claim. Especially since this most degenerate of hybrids meshes the worst of all worlds into predictable pastiches of sentimental melodrama geared toward the mummification of the world’s weakest minds. Despite the occasional outburst of…
CURNBLOG appears in ‘The Guardian’
Hi all, I thought I’d drop CURNBLOG readers a quick note on some exciting news. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece for The Guardian as part of their Clip Joint article series, which also featured a short blurb promoting the work we’re doing here at CURNBLOG. The piece was on Conflicted Bad Guys in…
Seattle, 1965: When a teenager could see three films and three bands for 99 Cents, then sneak into an adult movie
“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita for persons over eighteen years of age?” For two and a half years, I had been wanting an answer to that question, and was beginning to think I wasn’t going to find out until I turned eighteen. Then, while browsing the newspaper’s movie section on a…
Thank You, Mr. Welles: Definitive actor, consummate director, and true auteur
Orson Welles is considered by many to be the greatest film maker in history. I do not necessarily agree with that, although I do consider him to be one of the greatest actors of all time. His voice alone is worth a career, let alone his charismatic presence in a film. As a very young…
The Lonely Cinephile: How Laurel and Hardy introduced me to robot monsters and slime people
I blame my grandfather for this. Him and all those damn Laurel and Hardy movies he taped off TCM. Much like a heroin addict taking that first hit, my future was pretty much mapped out. Oh sure, I had other nerdy hobbies that made up for my lack of friends or a social life through…